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Non-Tech : Derivatives: Darth Vader's Revenge -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (17)	9/2/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 2794

Kabul 1841 The British decided it was wise to retreat from Afghanistan in the dead of winter. The Consulate, the army and all civilians. Lots of women and children etc. They got the whole group headed through snow bound rocky passes. Meanwhile the local Afghanis decided not to be friendly and began attacking the column. It developed into one of the most incredibly screwed up and nightmarish slow motion death marches through high mountains in freezing cold and snow. My details my be sketchy as British Victorian era history is not my particular interest but that is how I recall it. I believe no one, or very few, on the British side made it out alive. An incredibly devastating rout. And the British were all confidence and arrogance when they set off. I believe this might have been the point of the original reference ;) Henry

To: Sam who wrote (17)	9/3/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: Worswick	Respond to of 2794

Very good Henry. An A. Go to the head of the class. A bit more to add perhaps. As a result of a failed policy in Afghanistan after Xmas day of 1841 a British Army of 12,000 people including men, women, children, camp followers and soldiers began a retreat through the passes that led to India from Kabul. Approximately, ten days after the retreat began a single manwas seen by the pickets of the British post at Gundamuk on the other side of the Khyber coming towards the post across the flat plain. As the man rode closer to the British position the pickets saw the man was being pursued by several Afghan horseman. A body of cavalry galloped out to save the man, whom the garrison supposed was the long awaited messenger from the British Army of Kabul. The story was quite different, however. The horse man clutching a stub of sword, and greviously wounded by sword cuts was the single survivor of the army of 12,000 to march through the pass and reach India. The survivor of the march from Kabul was a Dr. Brydon who, apart from a few hostages taken by the Afghans, was the single person to survive the greatest military disaster ever faced by the British.